Difference between revisions of "Annotating Tumbuka"
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| − | + | One of the challenges when glossing a Bantu language is the annotation of the verb's affixes since aggultination is one of the characteristics | |
| + | of Bantu languages so that a verb in Chichewa can be preceded by up tp 4 prefixes and followed by up to 3 suffixes. One way of representing verb affixation is in terms of a verb schema where the verb root is accompanied by slots (SLT) each of which hosts one or several affixes of a specific grammatical type | ||
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| + | |- style=background:#FF8C00; color:#006400 | ||
| + | | (NEG)||SUBJ.AGR|| TA1||(OM)||style="color:red" |ROOT||(DS)||(TA2)||FV | ||
| + | |-style=background:#FF8C00; color:#00640 | ||
| + | | SLT1||SLT2||SLT3||SLT4||||SLT5||SLT6||SLT7 | ||
| + | |} | ||
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| + | '''MORE SOON''' :=) | ||
Revision as of 12:29, 4 June 2008
THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION
One of the challenges when glossing a Bantu language is the annotation of the verb's affixes since aggultination is one of the characteristics of Bantu languages so that a verb in Chichewa can be preceded by up tp 4 prefixes and followed by up to 3 suffixes. One way of representing verb affixation is in terms of a verb schema where the verb root is accompanied by slots (SLT) each of which hosts one or several affixes of a specific grammatical type
| (NEG) | SUBJ.AGR | TA1 | (OM) | ROOT | (DS) | (TA2) | FV |
| SLT1 | SLT2 | SLT3 | SLT4 | SLT5 | SLT6 | SLT7 |
MORE SOON :=)